Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game against Lincoln H.S. the score reached 65-0 at halftime after repeated onside kicks by Wilson, and the losers did not come back out on the field for the third quarter. Cuccia's father and high school coach Vic Cuccia, explained that he was trying to give his players a chance to set records so colleges would notice them...
...Cuccia gives most of the credit for Wilson's success to his father's coaching. "Our talent wasn't really much better than anyone else's, but our plays were much better," he said...
Having his father as the coach could have meant undue pressure while growing up and resentment on the part of his teammates, but Cuccia claims that neither of these were problems. "He would just ask, 'Do you want to do this?' If I hadn't wanted to that would have been fine. But I love football, so it didn't matter. In high school, if I was no good he wouldn't have played...
...parents and grandparents were fascinated with words and poetics, and fostered that same affinity in their family. "I'm sure there's cellular truth to this, too," Carlin interjects, "but my mother's father was an original New York cop, and he had written out long-hand all of Shakespeare's written works--he quizzed my mother at the dinner table. And my mother was always careful to let us know how we could free ourselves through expression...
...Junior high was a pain in the ass. They had me doing solid geometry, or algebra, and third-year Latin was not pleasurable. See, I had no father. My father died when I was young so I had no iron discipline as a teenager, and when I became a teenager, my mother became a pushover...